As Logan grows, a race to train screeners begins. CHELSEA — Logan International Airport opens a rebuilt Terminal A in two weeks, offering millions of passengers a glittering gateway to the world from the former home of Eastern Airlines. It will also create fresh personnel demands on the Transportation Security Administration, which is losing about… Continue reading As Logan grows, a race to train screeners begins

Cahier: The Honda Accord of Moleskines. Nice middle ground between the high-end Classic and the modestly-priced Volant. I like that you can doodle on the cardboard cover. [43 Folders]

Microsoft to disable product activation over Net. Customers who find themselves reinstalling Windows XP should be ready for a headache: Microsoft will no longer support activating the product over the Internet. Intended to curtail the stealing and selling of certificates of authenticity, the new security measure will start at the end of this month. At… Continue reading Microsoft to disable product activation over Net

E-meetings Becoming More Mainstream. This week's issue of ComputerWorld has an excellent feature story on how e-meeting systems have evolved to save companies time and money by reducing travel expenses. One of the companies featured in the story is Groove customer Steelcase Inc., the global office furniture company. Florent Burion, international CRM team leader at… Continue reading E-meetings Becoming More Mainstream

Adaptive Path: Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications. Jesse James Garrett. Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of a new approach to web applications that we at Adaptive Path have been calling Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what's possible on… Continue reading Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

PHPDNSAdmin 1.5.2 (Stable branch).  DNSAdmin is PHP frontend for creating and editing DNS zone files. It can also handle multiple domains. All data is stored within a MySQL database, and zonefiles and reversefiles are created automatically. It also has a little feature to inventory your system by capturing username, MAC address, and the location. This… Continue reading PHPDNSAdmin 1.5.2 (Stable branch)

Resurgent Novell: Building Linux for Grownups?. NetWare's latest offerings may be bringing Novell out of its funk. More importantly, they might be delivering a level of manageability long-time Linux admins have been hoping for. Here's a look at what's new from Novell. [Datamation Product News]

BeatrIX Linux 2005.1 (Default branch).  BeatrIX Linux is a 180-megabyte live CD that is also installable to hard drive. It features kernel 2.6.7, Gnome 2.8, Evolution 2.0, Firefox 1.0 with AdBlock, Open Office 1.1.2, Vim, Apt, xPDF and more. It tracks the Ubuntu package repository. It was originally built for the mini-ITX motherboards from Via,… Continue reading BeatrIX Linux 2005.1 (Default branch)

Hula Update.  Hula is only a week old and yet has enjoyed tremendous attention already. The activity level is fantastic: Martijn van Beers has written a perl script that queries the NMAP agent to get your calendar, then exports it to the web, in a manner suitable for reading by clients like Evolution and iCal.… Continue reading Hula Update

A King Design Internship. The last few months I've been completely swamped with work. Combine the contract work with my own software development and work on my new web site and handling sales and support e-mails and it's the reason that the new versions of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks haven't been released yet. I'm already… Continue reading A King Design Internship